Person:Alexander Walker (44)

Alexander Walker was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

Contents 1 Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA 2 Land Records in Botetourt County, VA 3 Documentation		Walker Tapestry Register Data Notebooks Analysis Bibliography Graphics Index YDNA. Walker Chalkley's
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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA

Acquisition of Land from Chalkley's:

• Page 146.--28th November, 1751. James Patton to John and Alexander Walker, 800 acres by patent as above. Broad Creek. Corner James Carr.

• Page 58.--Ditto. [18th November, 1752] Same [From James Patton] to John and Alexander Walker, 185 acres by patent as above. Broad Creek in Forks of James; James Carr's line. [Note: Broad Creek was located nearby the family of John Sprout, whose widow Jane appears to have witnessed the will of Alexander Walker]

Land Records in Botetourt County, VA

• Page 1. February 10, 1769. Alexander Walker of the Colony of Virginia to William Crawford. 5 shillings. Lease of a certain tract or parcel of land containing 154 acres on Broad Creek, a branch of James River. USGenWeb Archives

Documentation

Document:Will of Alexander Walker, of Botetourt County, VA, 1771

Source:Kegley, 1982:60

New River Notes Land Records

This article is for the Alexander Walker who gave his oral will about 1771, in Botetourt County, VA. His identity is unclear, though his oral will identifies several family members that may eventually help place him.

He could be, but probably isn't the Alexander Walker that Kegly, 1982 identifies as owning land on Sandy Creek, the Bluestone watershed, Abb's Valley, Source:Kegley, 1982:60, as New River Notes shows this land being in 1790.

If this Alexander Walker died in 1771, he can not be the Alexander Walker who acquired 400 acres on the South Fork of the Clinch River settled in 1773 Source:Kegley, 1982:62, 107

1. ↑ Worrell, Anne Lowry. Early marriages, wills, and some Revolutionary War records, Botetourt County, Virginia. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., c1976)
   pg. 64.

   Walker, Alexander. Will probate Aug. 1771.
   (Non-cup will)
   Names sister, Martha Minelly, bro., John Walker, and two nieces and nephew "in Carolina". He "died Saturday about ten o'clock in the morning July 6, A.D. 1771".

2.   Chilton, Ann. Botetourt Co., VA, will book A, 1770-1801. (Signal Mountain, Tennessee: Mountain Press, 1988)
   pg. 1.

   Page 7 - WILL OF ALEXANDER WALKER
   July 6, 1771
   Daughters: mentioned
   Brother: John
   Sister: Martha Minely
   Witnesses: Joseph Robinson, John Wallace, Mary Ann Wallace, Jane Sprout
   Recorded: August 13, 1771
   Teste: John May, CBC

3.   Summers, Lewis Preston. Annals of southwest Virginia, 1769-1800. (Kingsport, TN: Kingsport Press, 1929, 1967, 1972)
   pg. 584.

   Page 7. Non-cupative Will.
   This day came before me John Maxwell, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid, John Wallace and his wife Mary Ann Wallace, Joseph Robinson and Jane Sprout, and made oath on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God that this writing hereunto adjoined contains the true last will of the within named Alexander Walker, deceased, as far as they know and believe, viz: "Aleck", said Joseph Robinson in the presence of John Wallace and his wife, "You are very low, and it is unknown to either you or us whether you ever will be restored to health again or not, and I suppose it necessary that you should dispose of what estate Providence has given you." "Yes, yes", replied he, and immediately without any questions expressed himself in the following manner: "I give 5 pounds to my brother's oldest son who lives in Carolina; 5 pounds each to each of his two daughters, and 5 pounds to my sister Martha Minnerly, and all the rest of my estate I give to my brother John." And the said John Wallace observed when he mentioned his brother John, and allowing the rest of his estate to him, he, the said Aleck Walker extended his hand to Him, and he the said Aleck Walker appearing to us to be of perfectly sound mind and manner, and every way sensible as usual, and was able to set on the bed side without the support of any person whatsoever. Within half an hour after he expressed these words, which were the last words expressed as heard by us, he departed this life in the most composed and calm manner, saturday morning at ten o'clock, July 6, 1771.
   Sworn to me this 7th day of July, A.D. 1771
   John Maxwell
   
   James Robinson
   John Wallace
   Mary Ann Wallace
   Jane Sprout. Probated August 13, 1771.